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The Tools & Resources section offers visitors research reports, policy briefs and other resources covering a range of leadership issues.
Knowledge Categories of Effective Leadership
This section is organized according to emerging knowledge - from both research and field-based work - that collectively creates a compelling picture of effective leader performance and how that connects to improved student achievement. The sixteen topics within the Knowledge Categories fall within five broad topics; Cohesive Leadership System, Leadership Standards, Developing Leaders, and Improving Conditions, and Leading Change. To read more about the framework of the Knowledge Categories, please click here. |
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Becoming a Leader: Preparing Principals for Today’s Schools
If there is a national imperative to improve our failing schools, there is also an imperative to strengthen the preparation of those who lead them. The good news is that new research and a growing range of efforts by states and districts point more clearly than ever to effective ways to greatly improve the training principals receive for their jobs. This Wallace Perspective describes the key attributes of effective principal preparation and offers a set of action-oriented lessons that could help states, districts and universities do a better job in providing that training. |
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Strong Leaders Strong Schools: 2007 State Laws
This report by the National Conference of State Legislatures, a partner in Wallace’s education leadership initiative, offers a detailed summary of those actions which include measures affecting leaders’ roles, responsibilities and authority; leadership standards; program accreditation, mentoring; licensure and certification; professional development; leadership assessment; compensation and incentives; and governance issues. |
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Educational Leadership Policy Standards: ISLLC 2008 as adopted by the National Policy Board for Educational Administration (NPBEA)
With funding from the Wallace Foundation, CCSSO’s Consortium on Education Leadership and the National Policy Board for Educational Administration worked together over the last two years to update the ISLLC 2008 standards and make them more relevant to today’s leadership challenges. The Education Leadership Policy Standards reflect new research and lessons learned that identifies the influence of leaders on school improvement and student achievement. |
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Preparing High-Quality School Leaders
With recent research highlighting the importance of leadership in improving student achievement, states are taking action to help prepare and support high-quality school leaders. The Legisbrief from the National Conference of State Legislatures highlights legislation enacted in 2007 that support school leader improvement around the issues of leadership standards, improving preparation programs, licensure, and professional development. |
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Leveraging Leadership Development Through Principal Evaluation
With support from The Wallace Foundation, a team from Vanderbilt has been developing a standards-based, multi-component assessment system. This article provides background on the conceptual framework of The Vanderbilt Assessment of Leadership in Education, or VAL-Ed, and updates readers on its development process. VAL-Ed, can be used for measuring leadership behaviors of individuals or teams to provide diagnostic analysis, performance feedback, progress monitoring, and personnel decisions. The article notes that the conceptual framework of VAL-Ed is “anchored in and significantly aligned with the Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium standards.”
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